Canadian Lumberjacks Cut Pine in Scottish Highlands
Canadian Forestry Corps units arrive in Scotland and begin large scale timbering of pine in the Highlands. Workers from across Canada operate over a dozen mills and use modern equipment to supply timber for the Empire war effort. Leaders include Brigadier-General J. B. White and Lord Lovett, with diverse regional crews from British Columbia to New Brunswick.
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British Isles
Bowtland
Bouttiah
Ahe
Seotaard
Inns
Lord Lovett
Forestry Corps
France
Canadiana
Highlands
J. B. White
Montreal
Canadian Forestry Corps
Scotland
Head of
British Columbia
Ontario
New Brunswick
Albertan
Quebec
Maritime
Trail
Mission
Nelson
Merritt and
Salmon Arm
B.C
Chicoutimi
Murray Bay
Beauharnois
Calumet
Latuque
Gatineau Hills
Lang Lac
Fort William
Port Arthur
Thunder Bay
Woodstock
Bathurst
Saint John
Fredericton
O.C. Bacon
N.clo
Royal
Women Aviators Poised for Wartime Duty in Canada
Vancouver born Miss Helen Harrison, London Ontario chief instructor at London Flying club, with 2400 flight hours and both Canadian and British transport licenses, says many qualified women pilots are ready for routine duties. She notes indifference limits opportunities and calls for swift training of thousands more women as ferrying pilots.
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Canada
Helen Harrison
Vancouver
London
Ont
London Flying Club
Mise Harrison
England
South Africa
Sweden orders military prep for all schoolchildren
All Swedish boys and girls of college and high school age must undertake a one week course in military preparedness covering air defence first aid and messenger service. Boys also study marksmanship. Nearby, a reference notes a distance of 2 300 miles from Gibraltar to the Syrian shore across the Mediterranean and a giant kelp plant growing up to three times the height of a redwood. Falconry is claimed as the oldest sport in the world.
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Sweden
Soldier Poet Wins Prize for Arabic Poems
Emil Fakhouri of Safad won first prize in an international Arabic poetry contest organized with Cairo Jerusalem Baghdad Kartoum Aden and Singapore by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The 20-year-old Transjordan Frontier Force soldier, born in Nazareth and educated at Safad Government School, wrote on Shakespeare. He serves with Allies in Syria with his brother and has written Arabic poetry since age 15.
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Cairo
Jerusalem
Baghdad
Kartoum
Aden
Singapore
British Broadcasting Corporation
London
Spain
Emil Fakhouri
Safad
Trans
Australian POW Milton Boulton escapes to Palestine
Lieut Milton Boulton, the first Australian prisoner to escape a German camp, reached Palestine after a long overland trek from Greece via Turkey and Syria, fleeing guards, buying an atlas, and stealing a boat to evade recapture before rejoining Australian troops. Staple food of Afghanistan’s population is fruit.
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Milton Boulton
Palestine
Athens
Boulton
Hia
Turkey
Syria
Afghanistan
Machines serve us too much we fear their power
The Minneapolis Star Journal notes a paradox of progress as heaters, clocks, cars, and milk chillers are tempered by restraining measures. It argues that society coddles comfort with governors and caution, hindering innovation while seeking greater efficiency. The piece cites 168,573,000 miles of telephone wires as a vast but fragile web of communication.
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National Archives
Washington
Weill
Edison
Ford
Adam Smith
Minneapolis Star Journal
Quisling Newspaper as Parcel Wrapping Used in Norway
Reports from Norway note the Nazi backed Free People paper prints about 20 000 copies yet few Norwegians read it. Patriots repurpose the paper for wrapping parcels including four mackerel bought at a Western Norway fish market. The man paid, unsheathed the wrapper and carried the fish away in bare hands.
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Quisling
Norway
News of
Desert Trap Repositions Axis in Libya to Weaken Egypt
The Port Arthur News-Chronicle reports British strategy suggests Axis forces were lured into Libya to fixed positions for Tobruk offensives. These operations allegedly inflicted heavy losses on Axis forces and eliminated prospects of a western thrust toward Egypt and Suez.
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Port Arthur
Bride Recoils as Stranger Poses as Bill Collector
A curious incident unfolds at a door with a bride inviting a supposed bill collector inside. The exchange reveals a tense misunderstanding amid a line about car headlights noted as green in Argentina.
Exclusive Alice Brooks Design Pattern in Cross Stitch
An exclusive Alice Brooks design offers a transfer pattern for a 15 inch square motif with eight 24 percent inch and eight 15 x 2 inch motifs. Includes illustrated stitches and diagrams. Send 20 cents in coins to Household Art Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Household Arte Department
Wissipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Main
Alice Breeks
Scorched Earth Policy Looms Over Germany This Winter
Britain reveals it has mastered an acoustic mine defense as Churchill states mines are largely under control. A US economy survey says Russia’s scorched earth tactics will hurt Germany economically this winter by cutting vital supplies and raw materials, undermining war production and blocking imports from occupied territories.
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United Press
Russia
Commerce Department
Balkan
Germany
Middle Eastern
Manchuria
Iran
Afghanistan
Siberia
Aviator Surprised by Caribou Swarm in North Flight
Pilot George Gilmour of United Air Services slept beside Point Lake north of Yellowknife and woke to a moving forest of caribou horns. He and his plane were islanded in a vast migrating herd as the autumn Maas migration passed eastward. The Canadian Pacific Bulletin reports the remarkable encounter.
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George Gilmour
United Air Services
Gilmour
Point Lake
Yellowknife
Land of
Little Sticks
Canadian Pacific Bulletin
Incendiary in the Scullery Referred as High Explosive
A Merseyside fire station received a caller claiming an incendiary in a scullery after a raid. The men dismissed it as too large for an incendiary, and the caller admitted he slept elsewhere, asking if they had slept in the house with the device. The exchange ends with the remark that the object was actually high explosive.
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Merseyside
Scott
Leeds Yorkshire Post
New National Rules Cut Cigarette Ration in Paris
Paris authorities announced a reduction in the monthly cigarette ration from 180 to 120, and another regulation fixes the share of Jewish doctors and lawyers at two percent of those practicing in the city. Eskimos’ trade relies mainly on pelt exchanges with traders. New Brunswick is described as the best watered country in the works due to its many rivers.
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Paris
New Brunswick
King and Queen Visit Bombed Hull After Air Attacks
The king and queen toured bombed Hull, traveling 40 miles, spending a night in the royal train after three hours in the city. Regional Commissioner Lt General Sir William Bartholomew reported rising neglect feeling and public need, as ministers stay in touch with public sentiment during the war.
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Coventry
George
Britain
William Bartholomew
Hull
Commissioner Bartholomew
Whitehall
Prince Bernhard Praises Canada After Atlantic Flight
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who has rejected his German origins due to democracy, spoke by radio from London about his Canada visit. He said he piloted the bomber crossing the Atlantic and called the experience marvellous. He praised Canadians for their hospitality and kindness shown across society.
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Prince Bernhard
Netherlands
London
Canada
Atlantic
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Kingston
Sergt. A. R. Htrat
Picton
Quisling Newspaper
Argentina
Alice Brooks
Royal Navy
Churchill
House of Commons
Daily Herald
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